Hello,

After upgrading to 7.2.3 some settings are not retained between boots.

Specifically the server name is set and SSH enabled. There may be other affected settings but these two are the most obvious. Both were updated in the UI several times and both have again changed after a reboot. Server name to a very old name and SSH to disabled.

Not sure where to look.

Thanks!

Please post the diagnostics after changing the settings and before rebooting.

2 hours ago, Craigb said:

Specifically the server name is set and SSH enabled. There may be other affected settings but these two are the most obvious. Both were updated in the UI several times and both have again changed after a reboot. Server name to a very old name and SSH to disabled

This suggests that the settings are not being successfully saved to the flash drive. The requested diagnostics may give more information.

Attached.

One BEFORE changing the server name (from Tower to NAS1) and the other AFTER changing the server name. The SSH setting changing to off is intermittent. Will check that after the next boot. No clue where Tower has come from. It appeared after upgrading to 7.2.x. It's been NAS1 for at least 10 years prior.

Thanks!

AFTER SERVER NAME CHANGE nas1-diagnostics-20260120-1851.zip BEFORE SETTINGS CHANGE tower-diagnostics-20260120-1848.zip

Also...

Just noted another setting that's changed on its own. On the SMART settings, I disabled attribute 197 due to issues with the controller on the SSD I use for the cache. 197 is now enabled again.

'Tower' is the "default" name you would get if it couldn't read config/ident.cfg

For some reason several of your config files have names in all uppercase (including IDENT.CFG). Not clear that should matter since flash is FAT anyway. But those are not showing up in your diagnostics config folder.

Also looks like you have some stuff in go from Unraid v5 or earlier. Most of that is commented out, but it is still trying to load stuff from boot/packages. Any reason you aren't just using default go?

It isn't clear that flash is corrupt, but it also isn't clear that it should work like that, which I assume it has been until recently.

2 minutes ago, trurl said:

For some reason several of your config files have names in all uppercase (including IDENT.CFG). Not clear that should matter since flash is FAT anyway. But those are not showing up in your diagnostics config folder.

Good catch; not sure if that's an issue, but they don't show up in the diags if nothing else, so I think it would be worth recreating those files correctly.

Understood - I think.

Only change the file name or recreate them from scratch or a template? Presumably do this with the boot drive (USB flash key) out of the server and in my workstation to edit these?

You can try changing the names only first, and yes, outside Unraid would be easier.

File names in the boot drive are now all lower case. Also removed an extraneous comment from a line in GO. All other lines except EMHTTP are now commented out.

Settings seemed to be preserved after booting including the host name.

Now keeping an eye things.

Thanks for the assistance!